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  • 1.  It's volunteer appreciation week. I want to share our ideas for celebrating them!

    Posted 04-18-2023 08:14 AM

    Hello, I am the volunteer coordinator for a shelter in Montana and I want to share our awesome volunteer appreciation week. Save this for next year or use during foster appreciation week as well!

    I created a volunteer passport by asking local businesses to participate by giving volunteers a free or discounted item during volunteer appreciation week. Those who agreed would receive their own paw print stamp and would redeem the offer by stamping the passport. Volunteers were incentivized to participate with a tiered prize system, the more places you visit, the more shelter swag you earn! 

    Volunteers and small business are loving this. We have seen a huge uptick in engagement by volunteers on our social media. They are sharing across platforms and tagging the businesses they are visiting. This is creating great positive associations with our shelter, the community, and potential donors and sponsors for other events. 


    #PeopleManagement(includingVolunteerIntegration)

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    Rebekah Wong
    Volunteer Coordinator
    Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter
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  • 2.  RE: It's volunteer appreciation week. I want to share our ideas for celebrating them!

    Posted 04-18-2023 10:48 AM

    This is a wonderful idea! I live in Montana and have shared this with our local shelter. #strongwork 
    Gina



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    Gina Knepp
    National Shelter Engagement Director
    Michelson Found Animals Foundation
    Los Angeles, California
    916-230-4533
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  • 3.  RE: It's volunteer appreciation week. I want to share our ideas for celebrating them!

    Posted 04-19-2023 04:56 AM

    What a great idea! We used to have a smaller, very close-knit volunteer group so thanking them was very different. We have been trying to find a good way to thank our volunteers now that there are more people who we don't know on quite such a personal basis. Thank you!



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    Marilyn Wheaton
    Client Services
    AnimalsFirst
    Leesburg VA
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  • 4.  RE: It's volunteer appreciation week. I want to share our ideas for celebrating them!

    Posted 04-19-2023 08:56 AM

    It's been really fun so far. I have gone out to some of the locations that are participating and let the volunteers know I will be there. I get a chance to interact with them outside of the shelter and it creates such a deeper personal bond.



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    Rebekah Wong
    Volunteer Coordinator
    Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter
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  • 5.  RE: It's volunteer appreciation week. I want to share our ideas for celebrating them!

    Posted 04-19-2023 08:41 AM

    That is a great idea!
    Jeanette



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    Jeanette Hanneman
    Center Manager
    Eastern Madera County SPCA
    Ahwahnee CA
    559-404-0924
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  • 6.  RE: It's volunteer appreciation week. I want to share our ideas for celebrating them!

    Posted 04-20-2023 02:46 AM

    This is the best and most original idea I've heard in a long time.  What a fun way to interact with community sponsors and volunteers. 



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    Lisa Burn
    Co-founder/VP
    Farmhouse Animal & Nature Sanctuary
    Myakka City, FL
    https://farmhousesanctuary.org
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  • 7.  RE: It's volunteer appreciation week. I want to share our ideas for celebrating them!

    Posted 04-20-2023 08:08 AM

    that is awesome, we are doing a volunteer lunch on saturday for our amazing volunteers



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    t dominguez
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  • 8.  RE: It's volunteer appreciation week. I want to share our ideas for celebrating them!

    Posted 04-27-2023 07:23 PM

    What a great idea.  Will bring it to our board as a future possibility. Thanks!



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    Charlotte W Craig
    Animal Welfare Alliance
    Poplar Bluff, MO
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